"Scientists manage to study the physics that connect the classical the quantum world " Sep 09, 2013

"In a way, the atomic cloud behaves like its own miniature universe. It is isolated from the environment, so its behavior is solely determined by its internal properties. Starting with a completely quantum mechanical state, the cloud looks "classical" after some time, even though it evolves according to the laws of quantum physics. That is why the experiment could not just help us to understand the behavior of large atom clouds, it could also help to explain, why the world that we experience every day looks so classical, even though it is governed by quantum laws."

"A team of University of Queensland physicists has transmitted an atom from one location to another inside an electronic chip...

"One may even foresee future experiments in which quantum information will be distributed over larger distances directly by microwave to optical interfaces for quantum communication," Dr Fedorov said."

"Surprisingly, the researchers found that evanescent waves carry momentum and spin components that are orthogonal to the direction of wave propagation. Moreover, the transverse spin turns out to be independent of polarization and helicity, while the transverse momentum is proportional to the wave helicity...

These results add a new chapter to the physics of momentum and spin of classical and quantum fields, and predict a number of novel light-matter interaction effects involving evanescent waves."

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Physicists still don't know what the most fundamental particles are and are still far from being able to explain away the mysteries of the Universe. It seems like every time Scientists try to find the answers they end up asking a lot more questions. It seems like some things like what's the most basic particle in the Universe are perhaps Ultimately unanswerable because such a basic particle either can't be detected or isn't observable under conditions outside of the Big Bang.

Certain things pertaining to our exist I believe will forever remain a mystery to us, even if we as a species could have an infinite life span, the answers don't seem like they will ever come to us, it's unfathomable what the consequences would be if we could understand it all, we would in essence become Gods, imbued with the perfect knowledge of the Cosmos and capable of creating Universes for ourselves.

The Ultimate limit on the Science and what seems to forever limit are ability to become Gods is the mystery of it's beginning, if Scientists could understand what happened before the Big Bang and everything after it we would have achieved something as close to Omniscience as humanly possible. But since the beginning of time is by definition beyond observation it is beyond not only the realm of Science but beyond the human imagination because what's is beyond time is beyond our ability to even imagine, because humans can only imagine things that they have a conception of and there is simply no human conception of timelessness.